33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Fathers, do not vex your children, to the end that they be not disheartened.

but if any widow have children or descendants, let them learn first to be pious as regards their own house, and to render a return on their side to their parents; for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And it came to pass on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called it after the name of his father, Zacharias.

For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

And these were the singers, chief fathers of the Levites, who were in the chambers free from service; for they were employed day and night.

I have written to you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

Take wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and be not diminished.

But lo, if he have begotten a son that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like:

and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all the small vessels, as well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons.

for ye are all God's sons by faith in Christ Jesus.

And now, Jehovah my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father; and I am but a little child: I know not to go out and to come in.

and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And every one who has left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit life eternal.

And ye say, Why doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? But the son hath done judgment and justice, hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them; he shall certainly live.

For I am come down from heaven, not that I should do my will, but the will of him that has sent me.

And a man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head is the man, and the Christ's head God.

And Jehovah said to Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father's house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall weigh money according to the dowry of virgins.

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge:

Whatever man revileth his father and his mother shall certainly be put to death: he hath reviled his father and his mother; his blood is upon him.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother and the maiden was fair and beautiful and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

What mean ye, ye who use this proverb of the land of Israel, saying, The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

But another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go away and bury my father.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.